F.lux major update

Windows 10 and OS X now offer &quot;flux&quot; natively, as does iOS (after the whole debacle of forcing fl.ux out of the app store and then implementing the feature into the OS for themselves).<p>I was a loyal f.lux user for a long time, but now there&#x27;s really no point.<p>Additionally, f.lux doesn&#x27;t (perhaps didn&#x27;t, I should check the changelog on this new version) take into account OS-native color shifting and (at least on Windows) caused &quot;night mode&quot; to be enacted on top of the OS&#x27; own &quot;night mode&quot; leaving me with a... let&#x27;s just say very drab screen as a result.

The best tip I ever got (other than to use f.lux at all) was to set it to 5800K during the day. It&#x27;s an almost unnoticeable difference, but makes a huge improvement in reducing my eyestrain.

Something I&#x27;ve been pondering recently: If there is broad acceptance of the research, and sufficient industry agreement to justify programs like f.lux and other night lights, should web developers like myself be more considerate as to what colours we splash over our websites?<p>I ask this as someone whose most recent project is bathed in a deep blue background, while posting on a site that is comfortably orange.

Windows 10 has this built-in now, and I use redshift on linux. I don&#x27;t see how f.lux is going to compete against Windows 10&#x27;s built-in feature tbh.

Excellent! Great update. I run F.lux all the time, day or night. I recently attempted to switch to Night Shift but it&#x27;s much less effective.<p>May they manage to find a rewarding and stable business, they&#x27;ve done my eyes and I an important service. Before F.lux, I had strained &quot;computer eyes&quot;. It was a drain on my energy and made me grumpy. It is no more.

I switched to ligthbulb in the meantime (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Tyrrrz&#x2F;LightBulb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Tyrrrz&#x2F;LightBulb</a>) Haven&#x27;t really looked back, and I actually prefer it.

You can donate via PayPal off their install page.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;justgetflux.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;pages&#x2F;welcome&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;justgetflux.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;pages&#x2F;welcome&#x2F;</a>

I have to assume that this burst of activity came because Apple and Microsoft are both now just do what f.lux does in the OS (Apple fans will be familiar with the term &quot;getting Sherlocked&quot;). Can&#x27;t see how f.lux is going to survive long-term, to be honest.

The fact that our eyes adapt so well to the light temperature change by flux makes me wonder if there are other tricks we could be burning into operating systems to reduce eye strain or other benefits for health just by applying filters or alter treatments to the display. It seems like &quot;health-oriented graphics methods&quot; is pretty uncharted territory.

Does the Linux version work with Wayland already?<p>Edit: Apparently this is now built-in to Gnome 3.24+, using the name Night Light. I am happy camper again!

Do I still need to set a location or can I just use timed based? Most annoying part of flux...

Very happy to see this, as I use f.lux less often than I&#x27;d like because of some shortcomings (slowdown when transitioning, and lack of customization). What I&#x27;d really like to see is direct and unbounded control over brightness and red-shift separately. At night flux just doesn&#x27;t go dim enough for me, and the 1200k loses more contrast than I think it ought to.

This new interface is the most confusing UI yet.. Also, the update managed to &quot;forget&quot; all my existing settings..

Is F.lux open source software? I don&#x27;t see a link to source code on their site and a quick web search didn&#x27;t turn anything up. I wonder why they would lock down development when they could get a lot of great community support (not much to lose; it&#x27;s free and they just ask for a $5 donation).

I prefer OS X&#x27;s nighttime mode. Except that it always forgets to turn off when on Sunset to Sunrise mode.

I&#x27;m constantly surprised at how many designers use flux and its alternatives. I can&#x27;t stand the color shift and I&#x27;m not even a designer. How do you put up with it?

I love f.lux, but it disappeared from my work computer recently, and the f.lux site is blocked on our network now. I&#x27;m not sure why we would have flagged the program and&#x2F;or site as bad. It seems like a pretty harmless utility to me, and I don&#x27;t recall there ever being any issues with it. Oh well. At least I can still use it on my home PCs.

I&#x27;ve been using this version on macOS for probably over a year now, I&#x27;m not sure exactly how long.<p>I don&#x27;t believe I opted into any betas, and I couldn&#x27;t find a similar featureset for Windows&#x2F;Linux.<p>Still, good news for anyone running Windows&#x2F;Linux, I&#x27;m actually going to go update ASAP.

Looks like their appcast hasn&#x27;t been updated for 4.0 yet. I&#x27;ll wait for that so I can install it with Homebrew.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;justgetflux.com&#x2F;mac&#x2F;macflux.xml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;justgetflux.com&#x2F;mac&#x2F;macflux.xml</a>

Hue integration is one of the most interesting applications of IoT that I&#x27;ve read about in a while. An entirely obvious application once I think about it, but something I never thought about until now. Looking forward to trying that out!

Installing the last update was an awful experience for me. I was prompted to update at night and during the upgrade f.lux turned off without warning and I got blasted with brightness. I hope they handle this better in the future.

The supposed performance improvement is really the only thing I care about as I am happy with the amount of red shift I currently have. It&#x27;s nice they are bothering to integrate more pro-sleep functionality for those who care though.

When I originally set up flux, it had the default night time colors <i>way</i> too orange, somewhere like 1900K. This made my eyes strain quite heavily and I had to turn it up to a usable level. Has this been changed&#x2F;fixed?

&gt;Better performance with games (no stutter)<p>Hopefully this fixes my main issue with f.lux. It seems to cause severe input lag during transitions, making my Windows machine nearly unusable.

Have they added custom times yet? Last time somebody requested that feature the dev basically told them to f themselves.

When does the new version become available?

Awesome!!! It works with my display adapter finally!

Was expecting them to announce a $5 monthly subscription to use the new version too. Lol. &quot;SOFTWARE SHOULD BE SUBSCRIPTION&quot;